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Different typefaces can create very different tones for a project. Think of some of the most-well known logos in the world and how they might be different using another typeface.
That's Clojure (or—in this case—ClojureScript, which compiles down to JavaScript), which is a Lisp derivative that runs on the JVM. http://clojure.org
So the landing page is a timeline of what happened to this project and no link to try/download etc..?
ClojureScript a Clojure to JS compiler.
I have no idea what this time line is trying to tell me and I have no idea what this app is about ... just me?
if (!posts.hasOwnProperty(req.body.slug)) {
posts[req.body.slug] = new Post(req.body);
res.send(200);
}

Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't that code also happily assign to properties like "constructor", not just "hasOwnProperty"?
But without an ecosystem of frameworks like OSX or .NET, it will be difficult to develop apps with good and consistent experience.
Fortunately, there is a free [1] enterprise zone just a few hundred miles from Paris where many French entrepreneurs and businessmen can locate to. It's called London [2]

[1] Relatively speaking

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174704/Wealthy-Fren...
New York City is considering licensing more taxi medallions. But critics argue more taxis would slow down taxi service for everyone, and of course also increase congestion and travel time for all other vehicles too. Unofficial taxi services like Uber and Lyft discussed recently on HN would have similar effects.
You are welcome to ask that in our FAQs! Today we support english and italian and we will have a spanish translation soon (sorry I can't be more specific than that). We know this is a priority and we'll be working on it as soon as possible.
Valid points. My vision is most that popular frameworks have their own best-practices. Initially starting with rails is just easier to target and be used for. Thoughts?
How does the caller know if you're the type to use voicemail? (I never check mine, if it's urgent you would have called back) How often will you check your voicemail, if at all? Hourly? Once a day? Maybe the call is semi urgent, it can wait an hour but not a day.

Key point: knowing why you're not taking the call is valuable information to the caller.
I appear to be the odd man out, here.

I have always felt empathy for others. I've always been able to put myself in their shoes.

I went through my "Neo in the Matrix" period long, long ago. Long before the Matrix came out. I was able to manipulate people like it was nothing.

One day, I realized how unethical that was. I was toying with other people for my own ends.

And so, like a comic book character, I started using my powers for good. When I manipulate people now, it's for their good, not mine. For example, people generally do not take advice, no matter how good it is. But you can manipulate them into it. Like Inception, you have to make it at least partially their idea. You ask them pointed questions that have only 1 answer. Of course, they'll come up with that answer. It's now their idea.

Strong-willed people can still resist it. But these are the people that have always been hardest to help, anyhow. If you've tried your best, you can't feel bad for failing to help them. They simply won't let you.
After reading the Beej's guide to networking programming [1], I wondered what could be the simplest approach to making a multiclient socket server using unix pthreads/mutexes. I ended up writing [2] (C++), mostly as an exercise. Although I have never tested it properly nor I consider myself to be a great programmer, it seems to work. Not something to learn from, though. Anyway, any feedback is really appreciated.

[1] http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

[2] https://github.com/raaapha/multichat
But, none of my other contacts will have a status unless they have your app, right?
I'm honestly surprised he didn't mention Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-...

The crux of the argument is, "As a software developer, I am happiest writing software that gets used. What's the point of all this craftsmanship if your software ends up locked away in a binary executable, which has to be purchased and licensed and shipped and downloaded and installed and maintained and upgraded? With all those old, traditional barriers between programmers and users, it's a wonder the software industry managed to exist at all. But in the brave new world of web applications, those limitations fall away. There are no boundaries. Software can be everywhere."
I don't understand, they aren't meant to be a dumb pipe? Paying purely for data means we don't pay for the marked up services like texts and calls.
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In 1992 Air Inter Flight 148 did a controlled flight into a mountain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Inter_Flight_148
This was really annoying for me because somehow the google redirect link took a lot longer to load than the ultimate destination would, or even regular google pages.
7 jobs (mobileDev/ui/ux/webdev) in CPT, ZA
Must have also taken some time to get such high profile investors and advisors. Care to share your secret?
Reading my comment again, I see I made the mistake of addressing both the philosophy of science and the semantic aspect of the field of study called psychology in the same thought, and gave neither subject proper elaboration for the full-fledged discussion this thread has turned into.

On the first point, I was addressing the fact that some areas of research within psychology are amenable to objective, empirical observation, whereas others are not. I was not defending the philosophical grounds for classifying the entire field of psychology as scientific. I realize that even the "hard" subfields of psychology do not necessarily stand up to certain philosophies of science in the way that physics does. But I am a pragmatist. The scientific method, to me, is systematic observation and reasoning about the world that produces useful results[1]. Psychology would more accurately be called "academic study" of behavior, or something like that, but I feel "science" is a term that can be used in everyday language more loosely than in a strict philosophical argument, which I hadn't intended to be making. Just like when a scientist says "the Higgs Boson exists" when they should really say "evidence suggests at 5-sigma there is a subatomic particle with a mass of approximately 125 GeV." It's semantics, and that's where our disagreement starts. I concede, philosophically, you are correct about what is or isn't science.

On the second point, I believe a major problem with "psychology" is that it is too big of an umbrella term. That is why I defend its nuances against criticisms of "psychology is not legitimate science."

>That claim is completely falsified by the recovered memory therapy debacle of the 1990s...

For you to "completely falsify" the claim that psychological inquiry has increased human well-being because there are examples of people getting something wrong is bullshit, and I think you know that if you give it a second thought. I won't claim implementation of mistaken (due to it's non-scientific nature) psychological understanding never does harm, but on net, our understanding of psychology is absolutely beneficial in many domains, even if you don't want to call it science.

[1] I would include, of course, production of knowledge that does not have immediate application.
If only London was such a physically comfortable place to be and live in as Paris!
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Engineering rain that doesn’t get you wet
Explore a world where rain doesn't get you wet...

"The tracking system is made up of 3D depth cameras either side of the installation that communicate with the water valves."

http://bit.ly/VJfeJ1
..I was under the impression that special relativity only forbade accelerating to the speed of light - particles that always traveled FTL (i.e. tachyons) were explicitly fine.

So.. what have they added with this work, exactly? IDGI.
But, isn't it two different people paying the corporate tax and the cap gains tax? Forgive me, but the way you explained the cap gains tax seems akin to me being taxed on my income, then taking part of the leftover money to pay for a mechanic and him having to pay income tax on what i paid him. Could you please explain where/how i'm misunderstanding you?
In many cases I'd say you are right, but the scope of this application looks limited enough to be able to port the application part over to Android really fast, especially if the author already has experience developing for Android.

Most of the work for this product is probably in the backend, which I assume does not need to be changed to service Android clients.
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and like all good things, it started by accident. (i got this story from one of their marketing managers) once upon a time someone at the formula 1 won a race. and the masterchief (or however the bosses of the racing teams are called) drank a red bull instead of champagne during the victory interview.

next day red bull was sold out in austria (which was their main market at that time)

they just took it from there.
Exactly. Because the app is not finished yet. Seems like the page is more a pitch to investors than a real product landing page.
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Thats another Then... you could add

- Then they said it didn't have an ecosystem of frameworks like OSX or .NET

the frameworks will come. It's undeniable that the web, and tooling surrounding it is reaching critical mass.
A Startup fulfills its promise after 22 months...
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I really like the landing page too.

However, I agree with other posters that I don't see the business model, nor the need for the Android app before gaining traction/validating the business model.
This is why I want to fork Chrome and create a secure and privacy-aware browser.

* Take out everything Google-related, including safebrowsing

* Rip out Flash and Java

* Integrate NoScript

* Integrate an alternate html5/canvas based video player

* Integrate third-party request blocking

* No cookies by default

* Strip out all the tracking id's in URLs (eg. Google search results pages, back to just plain old ?s=search+query)

* Automatically clear cookies such as the __ut* cookies from analytics

* Incognito by default

* Introduce a concept of 'installing' trusted sites that would be allowed to run scripts, etc. not too dissimilar to how desktop computing works

I have had this idea for over a year now, but haven't gone far in implementing it other than doing a test build of chromium with incognito by default and some default extensions.

It came about because my dad and other family members have each had spyware or rootkits installed on their machines. 99.99% of drive-by exploits can be stopped by simply not running IE and switching off Flash and Java.

It would be a browser where you don't have to explain everything, just marketed/renown as being a browser focused on privacy and security features for everyday users.

When I get a chance, I am contemplating putting a team together and forking this as an open source project. If such a project is of interest to anybody else, get in touch (via email in profile).
I don't see what benefits this has C doesn't... maybe someone will see them. Anyway cool idea and runs flawlessly in Firefox 15.0.1@Ubuntu 12.04.
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That was my understanding too. Although its worth noting that the existence of Tachyons is entirely speculative.
>I believe Brendan Eich is suggesting that the preferred process is for a technology to be defined by a draft of a spec, and have multiple implementations' interfaces settle down before being standardized, rather than having one definitive implementation that unilaterally determines what is settled down and what isn't.

As in, Mozilla would implement a common core of NaCL features, perhaps omitting some of the less-core ones that Chrome has, and adding their own extensions, and they could see what was good and what was bad, and experimental features could gradually become part of the standard? Sure, sounds good.

But for google to try and define a standard when they only have the only one immature implementation would just be stupid.
.. or make lemonade and wait for your first few customers. Learn from their feedback, improve & iterate. Market to even more potential customers (just like you would have when you first build your park).
It's not just you. Their graphic designer is clueless. He can draw pretty pictures, but has no idea how to deliver the message effectively. All it needs is a bullet list of what the app does and maybe a screenshot.
That's such a WTF answer. Who gives a shit if you have a couch?
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There are cases where smaller companies with good marketing can out sell Coca Cola in local markets - a good example being Irn Bru:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru
> I have a feeling the world will change in some dramatic way as we move through the speed of light. All sorts of things could happen. Time and space could interchange.

Penrose diagrams, light cones and scenarios like approaching a black hole event horizon help a lot on gathering what he means here.
and even Adobe managed to add warnings to the flash player... Silly Apple
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I always had trouble figuring out how to behave or what to say in public settings. Trying my best to be the nicest guy in the room, but ending up coming off aloof and arrogant.

Until I learned the fine art of chit-chat.

I had an old Army buddy who was a master at chit-chat. He was a lawyer, of course. Anyway he'd drag me to parties, take me by the arm and work the room. It was an amazing show. Listening to his conversations and watching his body language I learned how to be non-offensive and how it was ok to talk about nothing important at all.

And that was my biggest huddle; learning that most people in social settings don't want to be serious. That that wasn't the point.
Read that story, they're currently sleeping on the floor...
This blog post describes Cloudinary's new asset administration API. Using this API you will be able to programatically browse through user uploaded images, find specific images, delete images, delete transformations and more.

Sample code for PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails and Node.js included.
As automation picks off the low skilled jobs we need to seriously start to raise the level of skill in the workforce. Trouble is that will take money, motivation and won't see results in an election cycle so I doubt anything will happen.

I wrote a little bit about it some time ago: http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2012/04/03/education-skills-sl...
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I think this is an interesting concept. I have a few questions, though, which I suspect could be commonly asked:

- What's the incentive for me to use this? Why not simply switch my phone off? It seems as though the core benefit is to answer the question, "Why isn't X answering their call?", but there's no clear incentive for X to share this. In fact, if X is busy, it's unlikely they will have the time to update their status.

- How do you explain to a non-technical user how this differs from Twitter or Facebook or Foursquare? How do you respond to a user telling you "I don't have time for another social network"?

- Have you thought about how to prevent "feature creep"? I see simplicity as the core selling point of this app, but I can also see strong pressure from investors to build this out until it turns into a generic social network.

Anyway, it looks visually stunning and I'm excited to see where you take it.
You are correct that that information is valuable to the caller.

To me that's, in general, not an acceptable information flow. It's a side channel that reveals information that I don't think people in general need to have.
And the investors should care about that why?
Octalysis: my Gamification Framework (critique please)
After doing Lifestyle Gamification (of course it wasn't called that back then http://ow.ly/eknmk) since 2003, and starting a Career Gamification Startup in 2007 (ow.ly/ekmyx), and now running RewardMe.com, I've decided to focus all my free time on Gamification (it is truly a passion of mine)

After some research, I created a complete Gamification Framework to analyze any process or product called Octalysis. It is based on Human-Focused Design and breaks down into 8 Core Drives that motivates us. It then graphs on an Octagon shape for further analysis and improvement.

This is just my first step (or MVP), so I am very eager to get some feedback and critique so I can improve it and make it better.

Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks!!
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Some FAQs: I'll be posting the third and fourth parts at 9 AM UTC on Wednesday and Thursday (and submitting the links to HN).

I got just over 100 responses to part 1, and I'm almost halfway through grading them. I'll be sending out a batch of emails (form emails, I'm afraid, to save time) once I've caught up with the part 1 grading.

I will be posting my answers, my grading scheme, and an analysis of the results next week.

I will not disclose any individual's performance (except to them) without their permission.
I really don't think it's that bad. Though I think they made a big mistake starting with the first entry on the right side. I read the second entry first, and kinda missed it.

Nothing wrong with being a bit creative, but they didn't nail that experience.
Send an email? Most voicemail systems will have a little flashing light on top when you have a message waiting.

If I'm trying to write a tricky piece of code and you keep calling me, a) I will be annoyed and b) my mobile will go off, my email client will go off and the land line will be unplugged from the wall.

What are you going to do now? Put on a gorilla suit and come jump up and down on my desk? Learn some class.
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I created a profile (which was quick and easy, well done). I wanted to connect it to my LinkedIn profile, but apparently you require access to 1. my profile 2. the email I use for my LinkedIn account and 3. my connections.

I can understand 1, but not 2 or 3, and I'm not willing to provide them to you without a good explanation of why you need them. I imagine other users will feel the same way. Why not just require access to my profile? It's much less threatening that way, and you'll get more people connecting their LinkedIn accounts.
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Redbull: Sponsoring everything cool.

It is, absolutely, a genius marketing strategy. Their primary demographic just happens to be the kinds of people who watch insane sports. Brand recognition from those events is huge, and then people just happen to drop their brand-name when talking about the events to other people.

Probably cheaper in the long-run than trying to compete with someone like Coca Cola in more traditional campaigns, and way more effective.
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> I wonder what he would have said about TypeScript

Likely nothing. The presentation has a slide on compiled-to-JS languages, and a link to a listing site. Eich doesn't seem to mind languages compiled to JS so far.
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They can be prevented from taking it with them.

Try renouncing US citizenship;
you'll have to pay a big penalty to the IRS to do so...
And https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki for the ClojureScript site-ish.
I guess I missed that the exchanges aren't commenting on this story. Now I suspect they haven't commented for many (if any) of these kinds of stories.
>"The rocket will crash, or it will not, period."

Indeed. We pretty much agree then. If you re-read the "real world probability" in the context, I was talking specifically about a belief network. The degree to which a justified belief, in an outcome will occur. All beliefs are by their definitions 'subjective' and occurring in a mind.

Actually my current thinking over the last decade mostly aligns with what could be described as physicalist view of the reality, so even 'subjective' thoughts, ideas, concepts etc exist objectively in a physical sense as well (glia cells, neurons etc). (but that's a whole other topic ;)

I simply worded it 'real word' because I was attempting (perhaps ineloquently I will concede), to differentiate between frequentist and the Bayesian understanding of the term probability, because they differ [1].

Bayesian favors bringing in a priori beliefs into the model whereas a posteriori consideration of a problem, as occurs in frequentist approaches, favor isolation of the model.

>What will actually happen is, the universe splits into many "worlds"

Interesting, you state that so.. assertively :p I'd give the chance of a many worlds interpretation corresponding well with our physical reality, a low probability event, with a pretty high credibility interval ;)

[1] http://www.experiment-resources.com/bayesian-probability.htm...
ClojureScript is really defined as a Clojure dialect, it has semantic differences from the "main" Clojure and is a slightly different languages (in part because features are missing from CS, in other parts because things were changed to work better and may or may not be folded back into Clojure).

ClojureScript macros are written in Clojure though.
A country that already hampers any real chance of getting ahead in the world

This is perhaps accurate about North Korea or Congo.
France, not so much.
The finance sector in the UK seems quite mean about holidays - I have 33 now and wouldn't go back. My wife is a lawyer and she gets even more, but due to pressure of her work she never gets to take them - at least I do.
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It is all much more complicated. Alcoholism affects mostly adult population, while drugs is mostly problem of adolescents. Sure, young are also getting drunk routinely, but it affects them much less, and habit isn't that strong.

A typical adult in Russia has so ruined, that he needs very small dosage and it affect him so heavy, transforms to almost an animal state. Young also have less tendency to abandon everything and just drink for weeks - they has much deeper social ties.

Drugs, on the other hand, creates fast and much stronger addiction, they also changes the mind, the attitude towards the world and life itself much deeper.

Another important factor is that dopers die very quickly, and you cannot see them suffering on the streets as you could see drunks whenever you happen to look. Usually, only close relatives have involved in a tragedy and it doesn't last too long - a year, on average, while drunkards could survive for decades..

So, problem is here. "War on drugs", is, of course, way to steal more money, not to offer any help with causes.

Government is involved because it affects their interests. A totalitarian state needs a cheap, unskilled workforce to build an assets and create wealth for the top-tier, but it need them sane and healthy. They cannot recruit sick slaves to serve in Army or to work on a construction sites. That is why there is a this "war on drugs" posters on the every wall.

And of course no body cares what older population does. If they going to die from alcoholism - that good for the government - less pension spending.

This is just a very rough outlook.)
* Objects as maps have limitations: only string keys, and literal objects have a prototype so you inherit potentially risky properties/behaviors

* Objects as sets are kinda terrible, they're not syntactically awesome and you need to override #toString to make them work correctly. They also don't support any set operation which sucks.